New York’s Met museum to remove Sackler family name from its galleries
by Joanna Walters in New York from on (#5SW3V)
Art museum announces change in the wake of leading members of the family being blamed for fueling the deadly US opioids crisis
New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is going to remove the name of arguably its most controversial donor groups - the billionaire Sackler family - from its galleries.
The news comes in the wake of leading members of the US family, one of America's richest, being blamed for fueling the deadly opioids crisis in America with the aggressive selling of the family company's prescription narcotic painkiller, OxyContin.
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